Archive for May, 2008
The Urban dictionary defines Vistaster as:
Yeah; a pretty good definition.
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We use Inkscape for the diagrams in the book and keep them as SVG of course, but for inclusion in LaTeX, they have to be transformed to EPS.
Instead of trying to remember to save a copy in EPS format from within Inkscape, I've automated that task by periodically running an svn update command, followed by [...]
If you want to start with TeX and LaTeX on Mac OSX, I recommend the MacTeX Distribution, which supplies virtually all you need to start with in a single installer.
The bundle includes TeXShop a simple, yet practical GUI in which you write LaTeX and produce PDF at the click of a button.
Accessing WikiPedia is easy when you're online, but have you ever wanted to take it along with you for off-line situations? I have, and there is a lovely program to do so for Windows: WikiTaxi. You don't have to install the program; just extract it from its 7zip archive and put it in a convenient [...]
Congratulations to our friends at NLnet Labs for today's release of the Unbound name server.
Quoting myself from the press release:
We are very impressed with Unbound," said Jan-Piet Mens, author of the forthcoming book, "Alternative DNS Servers." "It is great code, very versatile, and it is the fastest [...]
This is India. It's where you call when you have a technical problem with your computer.
[Thanks, Britta.]